Outgunned

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145161246X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned written by Walter Mosley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles—and finding the miracle of survival. "I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his huge, rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working for the Bounty supermarket, and moving perilously close to invisibility, it is Socrates who throws a lifeline to a drowning man: young Darryl, whose shaky path is already bloodstained and fearsome. In a place of violence and hopelessness, Socrates offers up his own battle-scarred wisdom that can turn the world around.

Author : Peter Harry Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603533
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outgunned written by Peter Harry Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there no legislative response after a six-year-old in Flint, Michigan, shot a classmate with a .32 caliber "pocket rocket"? Tragedy follows tragedy, with twelve children shot dead every day in America, but guns remain less regulated than automobiles. Why? As authors Peter Harry Brown and Daniel G. Abel in this powerful book demonstrate, it is because of the terrible power of the gun coalition. Outgunned begins with the story of Wendell Gauthier, the "master of disaster" attorney, who brought down the tobacco industry to the tune of billions and then turned his attention to guns. He struck fear into the hearts of the gun manufacturers as he set out to make gunmakers bear some liability for the killings caused by the often poorly made, inaccurate handguns they marketed to criminals. Coauthor Daniel G. Abel worked for Gauthier, along with other attorneys, as the gun-control campaign gathered momentum. This legal initiative seemed to be about to make history and change the face of violence in America, but sadly, Wendell Gauthier died of cancer before meaningful gun control could be established. More than thirty class-action suits against gun manufacturers now languish in courtroom paralysis while as many Saturday night specials as ever are being made. What happened? Brown and Abel demonstrate how the pro-gun forces once again curbed the will of a nation. This book shows the enomous power of the NRA -- how it killed pending legislation in Congress, hijacked the Campaign Act to fund the George W. Bush presidential election victory, and eviscerated the American Shooting Sports Council. That association and the gun manufacturers actually wanted to compromise and agree to new handgun laws, implicitly accepting some liability, but the NRA leadership, with Charlton Heston as their president, crushed them. In Outgunned, Brown and Abel uncover how NRA lobbyists were instrumental in stopping Smith & Wesson in its tracks. They show how the tendrils of the NRA reach into the Christian Alliance and Republican Party, and how men like John McCain have fought back and been undermined. Outgunned reveals how the NRA began dealing with President George W. Bush when he was still governor of Texas -- prodding him into signing a shocking prohibition against the kind of suits Gauthier brought against the gun manufacturers. Outgunned is the story of a legal crusade with up-close accounts of the people who fought every step of the way. For those who believe in the importance of stopping unnecessary bloodshed, this book is essential, powerful, and urgent.

Author : Anthony Fabrizio
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1594675198
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outgunned written by Anthony Fabrizio and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outgunned and Outmanned written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob Johnson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770875
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outnumbered, Outgunned, Undeterred: Twenty Battles Against All Odds written by Rob Johnson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How military forces have prevailed against the odds, explained through vivid narratives and specially commissioned battle plans. Throughout history men and women have fought, endured, and sometimes emerged victorious though the odds were against them. What conditions must exist to enable relatively small or weak forces to challenge and even overcome the strong? Here are twenty historical examples, from 1777 to the present, that reveal both the common themes and the exceptional aspects of those achievements. The examples range from George Washington’s rebuilding of the patriot army in the Revolutionary War to the defense of the Philippines in 1941–42, from Si´mon Boli´var’s liberation of South America to Finland’s defiance of the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939. The courage of the Devonshire Regiment at Bois des Buttes in France in 1918 shows what skillful and determined resistance can achieve, though—as in the defense of Stalingrad in 1943—isolated forces were often left with no option but to fight. The resolve that accompanies a last-ditch effort is demonstrated in the Israeli Defense of the Golan Heights in 1973. Two more recent examples— the Battle of Debecka Pass in Iraq in 2003 and the battle of the Patrol Bases in Afghanistan, 2006–08—show that some themes from these extraordi-nary historic achievements are still played out in warfare today.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1422333566
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outgunned and outmanned : local law enforcement confronts violence along the southern border written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob Johnson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770867
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outnumbered, Outgunned, Undeterred written by Rob Johnson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outnumbered, Outgunned, Undeterred tells the remarkable true stories of 20 battles or campaigns in which a force overcame the odds to challenge, or triumph over, a stronger opposition. It presents historical examples from 1777 to the present day, analysing the tactics and courage that swung events in favour of the underdog. Each chapter is accompanied by a large illustration or photograph of the conflict in question, as well as a specially commissioned battle plan in two colours. Rob Johnson, a noted expert in the history of war, analyses each of the examples and shows, through vivid narratives and specially commissioned battle plans, how they provided inspiration both at the time and since proof that whatever the odds, fortune favours the brave.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LEWIS B. PATTEN MAN OUTGUNNED written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis B. Patten
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451125736
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambush at Soda Creek and Man Outgunned written by Lewis B. Patten and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1976 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outgunned and Outmanned written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: